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NPR's Melinda Penkava reports on the complicated issue f federal benefits to legal aliens. The new Republican "Contract with America" alls for the cut-off of welfare benefits to all immigrants. While defenders of he plan believe we cannot afford to continue financial support for legal mmigrants, critics find the proposal neglectful and unreasonably inhumane.

Liane Hansen speaks with Palestinian journalist Abdul Salam assarueh (mass-AHR-way) about the recent escalation of violence in the region. assarueh says much of the Palestinians' frustration comes from lack of inancial support from western nations. Massarueh is based in Washington and rites for newspapers throughout the Middle East.

NPR White House correspondent Mara Liasson reports n progress made at the bi-partisian "work-session" on Welfare Reform hat took place yesterday in Washington, D.C.

Writer and economist DENISE CHONG, author of "The Concubine's Children" (Viking). The book is a history of her family, beginning with her grandmother, May-Ying, a concubine brought to Canada by CHONG's wealthy grandfather. May-Ying had two daughters in China, and CHONG's mother in Canada -- three sisters who hadn't met until Chong persuaded her mother to take the trip to China when she was writing this book. "Publisher's Weekly" says "this suberbly told saga of family loyalties and disaffections reads...like a novel.

Daniels talks with Russell Freedman, author of "Kids at Work, Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor". (Clarion

Day - Danny asks listeners to call the Weekend All Things Considered Valentine's Day Hotline in order to pass on the pet names they call their loved ones. The number is (202) 408-5183. Callers should leave at least their first names and where they're calling from...unless of course they're too embarrassed in which case just a location will do.

David Baron of member station W-B-U-R in Boston reports on a woman who has spent her life in and around doctors. Now she's become a patient and is battling cancer. She is hoping to pass on her first hand experiences to other doctors.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistead visits Kobe in Japan after a day's rain has further hampered efforts to rescue people trapped by Tuesday's devastating earthquake. Magistead reports that the only foreign assistance the Japanese government has accepted are Swiss army dogs which are trained to resuce people trapped by avalanches and earthquakes, but these dogs are not finding their task easy.

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH LOUIS (LOO-ey) VALDEZ, MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF NOGALES, ARIZONA, ON THE MEXICAN BORDER, ABOUT PRESIDENT CLINTON'S DECISION THIS WEEK TO DISPATCH 62 ADDITIONAL BORDER PATROL AGENTS TO ATTEMPT TO STEM ILLEGAL BORDER CROSSINGS DURING MEXICO'S CURRENT FINANCIAL DISTRESS.

Yesterday, United States Trade Representative Mickey Kantor nnounced extensive punitive tariffs on a long list of Chinese goods worth over billion dollars, and the Chinese government has promised to retaliate. Liane ansen speaks with reporter Matt Forney about international reaction to the ack-and-forth trade battle between China and the U.S.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews the new recording by Dion Farris, who used to sing with ... (?).

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Merril Peterson, Professor meritus of History at the University of Virginia, about his book, "Lincoln in merican Memory" (Oxford University Press, 1994). In his work Peterson examines incoln's image in American thought and how the strands of that image have been nterpreted and adpated over the years.